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TIL that Disneyland uses stray cats to fend off mice.

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Yp9ZP TIL: President Eisenhower hit the same pine tree so many times playing Augusta National that he tried to get the club to remove it in 1956. The club's chairman adjourned the meeting so he wouldn't have to disagree with a sitting POTUS. Sadly the tree had to be removed in 2011 due to an ice storm.
XrkQ TIL a monkey discovered in 2010 is known as the Burmese sneezing monkey because it sneezes uncontrollably when it rains [x-post from /r/DamnInteresting].
l75YN TIL Dave Grohl drummed for Cage the Elephant while opening for the Foo Fighters after their drummer fell ill
wLZM7 TIL that during World War 1, the Germans disguised one of their ships as a British ship, the RMS Carmania, and sent it out to ambush British vessels. In a hilariously bad stroke of luck, the first ship it encountered was the real RMS Carmania, which promptly sank them.
N71jM TIL Dolly Parton wrote 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You' on the same day. Both hit #1 on US Country Charts, went Platinum, and made Rolling Stone's Top 500 Songs of All Time. 'I Will Always Love You' was named the #1 Song of the Rock Era in "The Top 500 Songs of the Rock Era: 1955–2015".